This week for BuzzFeed News, Anne Helen Petersen unpacks the imminent self-tracking revolution. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.

Big Mother Is Watching You — BuzzFeed News

If you keep your fitness-related New Year’s resolutions in 2015, it’ll likely be thanks to the new wave of devices and apps that have taken monitoring things like newborn sleep patterns and blood oxygenation from geek hobby to mass-market juggernaut. But what happens when companies have access to the most mundane details about our bodies? Read it at BuzzFeed News.

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The Tragedy of the American Military — The Atlantic

In this tremendous piece, James Fallows argues how as fewer Americans participate in the military, the rhetoric and prodigal spending that fuels it have only increased — to tragic ends. "Too much complacency regarding our military, and too weak a tragic imagination about the consequences if the next engagement goes wrong, have been part of Americans’ willingness to wade into conflict after conflict, blithely assuming we would win." Read it at The Atlantic.

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Bernie Sanders for President? Why Not. — New York

Mark Jacobson profiles the senator from Vermont, whose radical politics are a reflection of the increasingly blue state he represents. "Unlike almost every other modern pol, he hasn’t had to change with the times. The times came to him." Read it at New York .

Photograph by Nigel Parry for New York

The 1988 Murder Of A Cop Changed New York. Will It Happen Again? — BuzzFeed News

Police fear a new wave of violence against officers; activists fear an end to efforts to hold cops accountable when they cross the line. Albert Samaha looks at what history can teach us about the present. Read it at BuzzFeed News.

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